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Member News
Membership News of 2006
The Nature Planning Network now has 86 members as of this reporting, representing ten
organizations as well. We’d like to give you a feeling for who your colleagues are so we’re
sending along brief descriptions of the folks who’ve joined since January of this year. Each
is a valuable addition to our growing network.
In chronological order by month:
Our first new member in January was Anthony Bernini from Albany, New York. He is our first
poet laureate who wrote us a wonderful poem which you will see in the forthcoming newsletter.
Next, Maryanna Bock and her husband, Peter Dennett from West Bath, ME, joined us and
helped inspire several recent gatherings at our house in New Gloucester. Maryanna’s pioneering
work at the Earth Circle Institute will also be featured in our upcoming newsletter.
www.earthcircle.net
Jacki Brook, a friend from Putney, Vermont, a leader of the Second Vermont Republic and a
colleague who hosted a Jefferson evening in Putney, has begun a study of the wonders of the plant
kingdom and sends news of her discoveries. Her delightful poem reflecting this exploration will
also be in our next newsletter.
Rand Christiansen, a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies working with
Brian Swimme is a cosmological thinker and visionary ethicist who we are counting on to be a
presenter at our October Cosmology of Love conference.
Steve Fox and Nira Granott from South Pomfret, Vermont, are remodeling their house and
adding on to it so they will have workshop and public meeting space to convene events and present
the things of importance to their wide interest in matters evolutionary.
Also from Vermont – Rochester to be exact – is our 95 year old lifelong environmental activist
Marion Leonard who with her Save Our World – Vermont organization is an inspirational force
for creative events, projects and strategies for helping the planet heal and be well. She is the
archetypal Nature Planner and famous to us for the line: “Vermont, the state to reinvent the United
States.”.
Kyle Richardson, who as a high school junior became a member of the Nashua, New Hampshire
School Board is our first Itzkan scholarship member. Kyle is heading off to the University of
Rochester in the fall where his genius-level thinking and wisdom will continue to flower.
At the other end of the country, from Seattle, Washington, Dick Spady joined us as a lifetime
member bringing to us the benefit of his many years of social invention toward civilization building
and his continuing development of the methodologies and technologies of many-to-many
communication to our network members and to the world at large.
In February, we were joined by Norm Bakos, a former city councilman from Buffalo, New York,
and the creator of the Buffalo Creativity Commission, a citizen problem-solving group safe from
political interference and part of the Buffalo City Charter, the first such group in the world. Norm
has been a friend a colleague at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) in Buffalo for many
years.
Belden and Lisa Paulson, early on pioneers in intentional community from Plymouth, Wisconsin
and Vershire, Vermont, also joined us in February. They are both social activists of every stripe.
Lisa is a wonderful painter and Bel is a long-standing visionary futurist.
One of our first organizations to join NPN as a group member is the Chaplaincy Institute of
Maine (CHIME) under the creative leadership of Rev. Jacob Watson. Joanne and Gus offered a
class for first year students on the stages of human development in January. CHIME joined us in
February and we a planning a similar class as a joint fundraiser in May.
So far in March we have had five new members join us. The first was Dennis Briefer from
Berlin, Massachusetts whom we met at the Love Cosmology conference in Marion, MA last fall.
Dennis is a former business executive with a company he helped start that specialized in electronic
instrumentation. Now his interests and areas of study are as wide-ranging as life in space,
conscious community and self-sufficient housing here on terra firma. Dennis is a lifetime member.
Barbara Gilles from Seattle also joined us in March. She is Director of Education for the Stuart
C. Dodd Institute for Social Innovation which was founded and is supported by Dick Spady.
During the Clinton era, Barbara was a Teacher of the Year and now she is teaming up with NPN
members Tom McMullen and Efiong Etuk to teach at CPSI in Chicago in June.
John Oresic, another CPSI colleague who lives in Claymont Delaware, joined us in March. John
is a poet, public speaker, and advocate for the elderly.
Jim Povec, a former computer magazine publishing executive now a nationally known life coach
from Camden, Maine also joined us in March. We are working with Jim on combining his
leadership assessment system with our WisdomWeather human development methods toward
planning and designing with whole communities.
And speaking of communities, Rick Smyre of Gastonia, North Carolina joined us with his Center
for Communities of the Future. We will be helping Rick with an international conference on
community building next year. Rick is a leading futurist worldwide.
Just before this e-mail went out to you, Cindy Schilling of Blacksburg, Virginia joined us. Cindy
is working there with Efiong Etuk, PhD, honorary lifetime NPN member and Unity Scholar. Efiong
is developing the African Communities for Creativity and Innovation initiative to teach creativity
throughout the African continent. Cindy is the founder of the Live A Difference Foundatiion..
Veta Allen is a member of the MOLA Research and Consulting Company in San Diego, CA. All
of our MOLA members came to our Founder's Conference in October, '05 and we loved meeting
them. Veta's areas of interest in joining NPN are BIG IDEAS and generativity She contacted us to
tell about her enthusiasm about her move to a new home in Solana Beach..
The Nature Planning Network now has 86 members as of this reporting, representing ten
organizations as well. We’d like to give you a feeling for who your colleagues are so we’re
sending along brief descriptions of the folks who’ve joined since January of this year. Each
is a valuable addition to our growing network.
In chronological order by month:
Our first new member in January was Anthony Bernini from Albany, New York. He is our first
poet laureate who wrote us a wonderful poem which you will see in the forthcoming newsletter.
Next, Maryanna Bock and her husband, Peter Dennett from West Bath, ME, joined us and
helped inspire several recent gatherings at our house in New Gloucester. Maryanna’s pioneering
work at the Earth Circle Institute will also be featured in our upcoming newsletter.
www.earthcircle.net
Jacki Brook, a friend from Putney, Vermont, a leader of the Second Vermont Republic and a
colleague who hosted a Jefferson evening in Putney, has begun a study of the wonders of the plant
kingdom and sends news of her discoveries. Her delightful poem reflecting this exploration will
also be in our next newsletter.
Rand Christiansen, a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies working with
Brian Swimme is a cosmological thinker and visionary ethicist who we are counting on to be a
presenter at our October Cosmology of Love conference.
Steve Fox and Nira Granott from South Pomfret, Vermont, are remodeling their house and
adding on to it so they will have workshop and public meeting space to convene events and present
the things of importance to their wide interest in matters evolutionary.
Also from Vermont – Rochester to be exact – is our 95 year old lifelong environmental activist
Marion Leonard who with her Save Our World – Vermont organization is an inspirational force
for creative events, projects and strategies for helping the planet heal and be well. She is the
archetypal Nature Planner and famous to us for the line: “Vermont, the state to reinvent the United
States.”.
Kyle Richardson, who as a high school junior became a member of the Nashua, New Hampshire
School Board is our first Itzkan scholarship member. Kyle is heading off to the University of
Rochester in the fall where his genius-level thinking and wisdom will continue to flower.
At the other end of the country, from Seattle, Washington, Dick Spady joined us as a lifetime
member bringing to us the benefit of his many years of social invention toward civilization building
and his continuing development of the methodologies and technologies of many-to-many
communication to our network members and to the world at large.
In February, we were joined by Norm Bakos, a former city councilman from Buffalo, New York,
and the creator of the Buffalo Creativity Commission, a citizen problem-solving group safe from
political interference and part of the Buffalo City Charter, the first such group in the world. Norm
has been a friend a colleague at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) in Buffalo for many
years.
Belden and Lisa Paulson, early on pioneers in intentional community from Plymouth, Wisconsin
and Vershire, Vermont, also joined us in February. They are both social activists of every stripe.
Lisa is a wonderful painter and Bel is a long-standing visionary futurist.
One of our first organizations to join NPN as a group member is the Chaplaincy Institute of
Maine (CHIME) under the creative leadership of Rev. Jacob Watson. Joanne and Gus offered a
class for first year students on the stages of human development in January. CHIME joined us in
February and we a planning a similar class as a joint fundraiser in May.
So far in March we have had five new members join us. The first was Dennis Briefer from
Berlin, Massachusetts whom we met at the Love Cosmology conference in Marion, MA last fall.
Dennis is a former business executive with a company he helped start that specialized in electronic
instrumentation. Now his interests and areas of study are as wide-ranging as life in space,
conscious community and self-sufficient housing here on terra firma. Dennis is a lifetime member.
Barbara Gilles from Seattle also joined us in March. She is Director of Education for the Stuart
C. Dodd Institute for Social Innovation which was founded and is supported by Dick Spady.
During the Clinton era, Barbara was a Teacher of the Year and now she is teaming up with NPN
members Tom McMullen and Efiong Etuk to teach at CPSI in Chicago in June.
John Oresic, another CPSI colleague who lives in Claymont Delaware, joined us in March. John
is a poet, public speaker, and advocate for the elderly.
Jim Povec, a former computer magazine publishing executive now a nationally known life coach
from Camden, Maine also joined us in March. We are working with Jim on combining his
leadership assessment system with our WisdomWeather human development methods toward
planning and designing with whole communities.
And speaking of communities, Rick Smyre of Gastonia, North Carolina joined us with his Center
for Communities of the Future. We will be helping Rick with an international conference on
community building next year. Rick is a leading futurist worldwide.
Just before this e-mail went out to you, Cindy Schilling of Blacksburg, Virginia joined us. Cindy
is working there with Efiong Etuk, PhD, honorary lifetime NPN member and Unity Scholar. Efiong
is developing the African Communities for Creativity and Innovation initiative to teach creativity
throughout the African continent. Cindy is the founder of the Live A Difference Foundatiion..
Veta Allen is a member of the MOLA Research and Consulting Company in San Diego, CA. All
of our MOLA members came to our Founder's Conference in October, '05 and we loved meeting
them. Veta's areas of interest in joining NPN are BIG IDEAS and generativity She contacted us to
tell about her enthusiasm about her move to a new home in Solana Beach..